Superhead First Flush and Rainwater Filter
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Superhead combines a first- flush, rain head, leaf screen and insect screen to keep you rainwater tank clean and safe
please contact us for more info at:
Superwall Systems
102 Walters Drive
Osborne Park. Western Australia 6017
Phone: 08 94674044
This is ingenious - the floating ball and the slow-drip-flush-reset-mechanism.
Been thinking of doing this myself and now I see it's already invented! oh well! nice design lol!
BonnetWrench: It would depend on the time lapse between the first and second rain. The tube drains slowly enough that you might still have water in it, so it would refill sooner.
"Once the flush pipe is full, the roof should be clean" --- no, the roof is not clean.
0:58 Those leaves tho XD
The filter will get blocked, try pine needles, then all the water ends up on the floor
2:16 with volume up
Oh, so if I put this on a tank, the military should be very thankful
for the overexcited australian narrator
Don't get me wrong, i love australians and their accents. :P
What happens if you get a light rain (just enough to fill the flush tube) and then it stops, the tube drains and then another light rain comes and instead of filling the (already clean) water into the barrel now it has to fill the flush tube again. If it rains on and off like that all day long you could potentially never get a drop of the clean water into your rain barrel...
you can calculate the volume of a cylinder and see that 6' of 3" tube is only going to hold about 2 gallons. Then calculate the area of your roof being diverted 1,000 sq ft of roof will capture about 600 gallons of water per inch of rain. So in this example a very light rain for 2-5 minutes would be enough to overflow this flush system 3 times! You can adjust these calculations for your system. You can also look up how many inches of rain per month is in your area and how many gallons you will use per month to determine how large you need for a storage tank.
1:05 Fail, roof is not clean nor the entering pipe, so it's not completely clean.
this is old technology.
a non-pvc version is a requirement for organic gardening
Not that I'm aware of. In fact most houses use PVC in their drinking water pipes, shires use it in water mains.
davros0007 government advice sites and other major groups point to the various environmental and health risks of PVC use with water. an overview is here: www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/the-vinyl-debate.aspx
+ura soul Yes they may. They would likely find 'risks' just like crossing the road is a risk too. But like all misinterpreted data, greeny/conspiracy nutters try to turn 'risk' into 'unacceptable risk', two poles-apart things. There is no rule saying that to be 'organic' you can't use PVC. In fact most organic food is likely packaged in more 'risky' packaging, or grown in a more 'risky' atmosphere, or transported... or cooked...
The same goes for GMO crops. They will save the world but still people harp on about non-existent or infinitely tiny 'risks'. Honestly.
+ura soul I mean, even look at the website title; skewed data interpretation and a conflict of interest before you even read it!
davros0007
organic standards are weak and not true representations of what organic gardening is intended to be by purists. in america it is accepted that organic products can use non organic pesticides and herbicides, rendering the entire concept moot and pointless.
none the less, the leaching that can occur from PVC pipes in sunlight exposed areas means that those who choose to produce food that is as natural as possible, will avoid them.
GMO crops is an entirely differnet topic, yet i disagree wtih you on that for reasons that are related to physiology, anatomy, toxicology, bio-ethics and an and on. walmart could feed a large part of the hungry planet by just stopping throwing away so much unsold food - no artificial engineering required.